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Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ..., who certainly did not need that €600. It was public money badly spent. Of course, it should have been targeted at those families who most needed it. The other point about that is that €12.4 million in energy credits went to the owners of holiday homes. By contrast, the working family payment measures in last year's plan amounted to just €4 million. Does this...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...is why the Committee on Health recommended greater intervention than the Minister of State is proposing. Unfortunately, most of those recommendations have been ignored by the Government. Of the 15 well thought-out recommendations, more than half have not been acted upon. What is the purpose of pre-legislative scrutiny if the Government does not take on board the recommendations from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It was the Minister who decided the time is right to remove the €500,000 cap on bankers' pay and restore their bumper bonuses. We are told he needs to do this so we can attract good people and the top talent to run our banks. It seems no self-respecting high-flying banker would want to work for a less than €500,000, as if they could not survive on a salary that is more than...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...the Minister justify indexation of nearly 9% this year and of more than 13% over the last two budgets, when the latest available numbers from the Central Statistics Office suggest average weekly wages are only increasing at less than 2.5% per year? This is set to cost more than €800 million in 2023 and €1 billion in a full year. This money could have been far better...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...years, now more than ever, there is a need to prioritise spending in the country. We might look at the figures that have been set out in the summer economic statement. I agree with the point that the 5% limit should be breached; that is the correct approach to take given the exceptional circumstances we are in. We are talking about €6.7 billion, however. When we break that down,...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...basis, to programmes that give debt relief to poor and vulnerable countries via grants and cheap loans. Yet the grants from Ireland to the catastrophe containment and relief trust are limited at €50 million, a paltry enough sum. Contributions to the poverty reduction and growth trust are limited at €75 million, and I am informed that roughly €25 million has already...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...outcomes nor the best value for money. That does not make any sense. We have never had a properly functioning public health service, going back to the establishment of the State. In the 1950s, there was the mother and child scheme and all that flowed from that in terms of the political opposition to it. That is sometimes underrated. We hear a lot about the religious objections to...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...here have been ruled out of order. It would have been reasonable for the Minister to allow some room within the context of what is a massive budget and a massive increase in spending, which is over €40 million for the next three years, but he did not see some way to provide further flexibility in the context of that big increase in the budget to cover a reasonable pay increase for...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...fuel allowance or pension payments and minor tinkering to tax bands will do nothing to address this imbalance. The Government was focused on including income tax cuts in this budget. More than €500 million was given over but the regressive nature of the Government's priority is evident in its own estimations of the results. For example, single people on middle incomes earning...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...the 2019 Report of the Independent Review Group established to examine the role of voluntary organisations in publicly funded health and personal social services concluded that, legally, the State cannot compel private Catholic entities to provide services that are contrary to their ethos; furthermore, notes that: — the cost of the construction of the NMH is likely to exceed...

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...by Fianna Fáil over the past number of Governments. I will also make a point on the allocation for Ireland and to the fact that in the first tranche for this and next year that allocation is €915 million, which is a very substantial amount of money to receive in grants. The second tranche in 2023 is due to be about €420 million. There is some doubt about that which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: .... Very often, drugs cannot be approved in this country because of the exorbitant prices that are allowed to be charged here. There is an opportunity cost involved. If one wants to approve €5 million for a given drug, €5 million is taken from other health services. If we are to hold such a session, we must invite Dr. Barry. I assume he still works in quality assessment....

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: ...than what has been done in respect of welfare. There was much preparation of the public mood in recent weeks regarding the Government's intention to not increase social welfare payments by €5 a week across the board, as has happened in recent years. We did not, therefore, expect that to happen today, given that advance flagging. Everybody, however, expected that there would at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (6 Sep 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of the first and full year yield from an increase to 5% for stamp duty on residential property transfers on all amounts in excess of €1 million. [36930/19]

Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Róisín Shortall: ...general. The implementation of the Sláintecare report would represent a grounded first step towards achieving parity for mental health. The 2018 budget for mental health services is €917.8 million, 6.3% of total health spending. This is below the level advised in A Vision for Change and compares very badly with similar states. A Vision for Change recommended it should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (19 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 5. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the recently announced funding for the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, to procure medical procedures in private hospitals represents best value for money; if a cost-benefit analysis on this €50 million investment has been carried out; his further views on whether this policy could represent a perverse incentive in the...

Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: ...Russian air force and Syrian army on the citizens of Aleppo. Over the past five years, there have been 17 major peace initiatives aimed at addressing the violence in Syria. The result is close to 5 million refugees, 8 million internally displaced people and 400,000 dead. Efforts to achieve a sustainable peace must continue and be redoubled and the international community must accept its...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: ...are changes to the tax system with the reduction in USC. Certainly, the Social Democrats would have argued that we should not erode the tax base. We would have been much better off to use that €335 million to invest in our public services and repair some of the awful damage that has been done to housing and health in particular during the austerity years. Unfortunately, that is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: ..., at best, offered courses of between three and six months duration. We know, given the skills shortages in the economy that have been identified, that the type of training required - FETAC level 5 and level 6 - requires training for a minimum of eight months and up to two years in most cases. The Department spends €300 million on the contract for JobPath. There is a central...